Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-01
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senator Brown Tells One OF the Req.
sens for Minister Jackson's. Resig-
nation of the Mexican Mission.
Representative Randall Speaks for the
democratic Majority of the House
and Comm ends It's Work
NLIN CONGRESS.
TIE SENATE.


of the Senate in reference to the seizure
and gale of the American schooner Re-
becca at Tampico and the resignation of
late Minister Mexico Jackson, stating
that it is not deemed compatible with
public interests" to communicate the cor
resemblance in either case at present.
Senator Brown said this claim for in
demnity had dragged its slow coil through
three years of diplomatic correspondence
without redress. Il was time that the
American Minister should make an earn
est and vigorous demand for restitution
and that WAS the view taken of the SUBJ
iect By the late Minister Jackson.
He intimated that it had been
one of the causes of Jackson's
resignation. Jackson believed American
citizens had been seized and imprisoned
and shamefully robbed of their property
IN Mexican port, and that robbery has
been committed with the aid and pre-
tended authority of local Mexican court.
At the request of the presiding officer,
Senator Brown yielded the floor tempora-
rily, and the naval appropriation bill,
which had Just been received from the
House, was laid before the Senate and
read the first time. Its second reading
was objected to by Senator Edmunds,
WHO SldICu uls I6dSOus 1OI uOlLS oOs lIS
complained Of great and unwarranted de-
lay On the part of the House in sending to
the Senate great appropriation bills, and
announced his settled determination not
TO have them railroaded through the Sen
ate. The Senate should have the neces-
sarv time to give full consideration to
them, and so should the President. The
bill in reference to the fishery troubles
had .ot yet been passed finally, ard II
Congress were to adjourn without having
made some provision on the subject
il would be the duty of the President to
eall the new Congress in extra session.
The interstate commerce commissioners
hsd for some reason or other not been
appointed and he did not see in the con-
dition of things that any undue haste
should be made ABOUT appropriation bills,
or that The Senate should be COerced from
its wise ana well ordered rules of bust
ness. He asked that the committee on
appropriations should make statement
as to the condition OF business.
Senator Hale Of the committee said:
al see but one result from the position in
which the Senate is placed ny the pre-
medtated delay on the part Of the other
body, and that result must clearly be
what think we have often deprecated,
an extra session of Congress. The COM
mittee on appropriations will do its work
as well as il can. 1t will sit day and
night SIS it has done and Sundays, but it
can not perform impossibilities.
Senator Allison, chairman of the COM
mittee on appropriations, said 81 regret
to say to the Senate that these bills sre
mott condition at this time TO be cCnsid-
cred With elaboration by this boGy before
the end of the present Congress, and that
# the bills are passed they must be
passed substantially as they came from
the House Of Representatives,, without
the independent judgment of the Presi-
dent Of the United States. He de-
scribed the situation of the various ap-
proprlstion bills and severely criticised
the House for It's delay in
sending them TO the Senate. As to the
sundry civil hill he declared that it had
been almost impossible to get the House
conferees together Tor the purpose of con-
sidering it, II is perfectly apparent, he
continued, that several Of these great ap
propriation bills cSnnOt reach the Presi-
dent before late on Thursday night, so
that. admitting even that We can get
through with these bills by Thursday
night, the President must take them on
trust and sign them without reading
them.
The House labor arbitration bill was
taken up ana passed without division.
House bill to prevent the employment
OF convict or alien labor upon public
buildings or public works or in the pre-
psrstion of material for public buildings
or public works was taken up, and with
out discussion or amendment passed.
The uro-pneumonia bill WAS taken
APP.
IJpon a motion made by Senator Dawes
TO reconsider he vote by which tee Ed
nlunds substitute was last week adopted,
the vote stood 80 to p. So the motion
TO reconsider was carried. IT, question
then recurring on the Edmunds substi
tute it was rejected, yeas, ri; nays, 20.
Senator Van Wyck renewed his amend
rnent extending the application of the
bill to swine plague and cholera and other
contagious diseases among swine.
Adopted. The bill then passed-yeas, -;
nays, 10.
The Senate then went into secret SEES
sion for executive business, and after
twenty minutes adjourned.
THR HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Mr. Holman OF
Indians asked unanimous consent that the
reading Of the iourr al be dispensed with,
but Mr.. Brady OF Virginia opposed an OBJ
lection.
The Speaker laid before the House
message from the President returning
without his approval bill for the erec-
ton of q public building at Portsmouth.
Referred to the committee on public
buildings and grounds.
The House then went into committee
of the whole on the legislative epproprls-
ton bill
Mr.. Holman OF Indiana briefly ran over
the items of increase and decrease recon-
mended in the bill, and defended the
course Of the committee on spproprla-
tians.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois said the House
was brought face to face with TIE alterna-
tive that the pending bill and deficiency
hill must be hurried through under whip
and spur under the i've minute rule, or
they must be passed without considers
tan under suspension of the rules, and
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